ABSTRACT
As early as the first edition of his The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud mentioned that a number of people have dreams of flying through the air. Freud called these dreams Flugtraume. Freud is unsurpassed as a source of information for personal involvement. A better description would be 'floating dreams', as the experience of weight to be carried, to be moved, is completely or almost completely absent. Freud classed these dreams among the typical dreams which 'presumably arise from the same sources in every case'. According to Freud, is to be found in childhood games, 'involving movements which are extraordinarily attractive to children'. Bertram Lewin published very interesting ideas on the dream screen which is doubtless a counterpart in the dreaming state of the eye-grey when awake. Freud proposes a theory to explain why this feeling may persist in many people throughout their lives.
